Sicilianedda Mazurka (O. Di Bella)

[Martin Jonas]

This is the last day of my Christmas holiday, so my time for playing and recording will be more limited (some of you may be pleased to hear...) -- as the final recording of this holiday break, here is another one of the Italian-American dances.

This mazurka was written in 1938 by Onofrio Di Bella and named after the Sicily he left thirty years earlier. There is also a tarantella, a waltz and a folk song of this title, but as far as I can tell they are unrelated to this mazurka.

I have played this straight from the original 1938 sheet music with parts for two mandolins and guitar (uploaded in Sheri's Dropbox thread), and have added a simple mandocello bass line to make it a mandolin quartet.

1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin
1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello



Martin

[rubydubyr]

once again, enjoyed it